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Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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Vogtle-3 shuts down for valve issue
One of the new Vogtle units in Georgia was shut down unexpectedly on Monday last week for a valve issue that has since been investigated and repaired. According to multiple local news outlets, Georgia Power reported on July 17 that Unit 3 was back in service.
Southern Company spokesperson Jacob Hawkins confirmed that Vogtle-3 went off line at 9:25 p.m. local time on July 8 “due to lowering water levels in the steam generators caused by a valve issue on one of the three main feedwater pumps.”
J.D. Sethian, A.E. Robson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1613-1615
Alternative Concept | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39990
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The dense z-pinch is considered as the basis for a compact and relatively simple fusion reactor. The pinch is created in a 200 µm diameter vortex of heavy water formed on the axis of a cylindrical pressure vessel of approximately one meter in radius. The water is the electrical insulator, the heat transfer medium, and acts as a continuously replaceable first wall. The pinch is pulsed repetitively at 120 Hz and with an input power of 17 MWe would produce about 500 MWth. The concept makes considerable use of existing pressurized water fission reactor technology. Experiments underway to test the plasma physics aspect of this concept have demonstrated that a pinch carrying 330 kA can be formed in quartz capillaries of diameters between 200–1600 µm which are filled with deuterium at pressures ranging from 80 mm to 20 atmospheres.